Re: Note about the Channel 5 Proceedings, 1957-1972

[Kevin Vahey <kvahey@channel1.com>]

At 11:34 PM 3/19/99 -0500, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
>
>It wouldn't surprise me if Joe Kennedy was behind the thing at first, but 
>by 1963, when JFK was asassinated, Joe Kennedy was incapacitated by 
>strokes and no longer active.  By that time, there must have been plenty 
>of others trying to get the Herald, though.
> 

   Remember that Channel 5 for most of its 15 year history had only a
temporary license, as the case was in and out of court for over a decade.
Joe got it started and then it just continued on and on. There is a book
that can be found at local librarys that goes thru the entire process ( The
Hunderd Million Dollar Lunch by Sterling Quinlan BPL has 2 copies listed)

   The FCC didn't want in those days.....
An out of town owner
A local that owned other media outlets

Thats how Channel 5 was declared "unfit"...........



>> The sad reality was that Boston Broadcasters was a scam from day one. From
>> the time they hired Bob Bennett from Metromedia, it was only a matter of
>> time before they sold the station to them. To BBI's credit, every original
>> employee was well taken care of after the sale, but it was the idea of
>> local ownership that got them the license in the first place.
>
>How so?  The Herald-Traveler was locally owned.
>
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